Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Eight, Lesson Three: Apostrophes

  1. bread
  2. spread
  3. thread
  4. weak
  5. sneak
  6. peak
  7. skiing
  8. recreation
  9. board
  10. resort
  1. depth
  2. drift
  3. chlorophyll
  4. cells
  5. chemical
  6. photosynthesis
  7. sucrose
  8. glucose
  9. fructose
  10. sugar
Apostrophes

Apostrophes are also used to show ownership or possession.

To show possession we just add an apostrophe and an "s" onto the end of a singular noun. Most often we do this to someone's name, but as you can see from this very sentence names aren't the only thing we add apostrophe-s to. Here are some more examples of the meaning of adding apostrophe-s. 


       APOSTROPHE-S			MEANING

        Greg's kite			The kite that belongs to Greg.

        Mary's lamb			The lamb that belongs to Mary.
To show that something belongs to a group can be a little more complicated since pluralization of the noun to which the item belongs may be accomplished in different ways. 

      APOSTROPHE-S                 MEANING
                                                                                
    the class' project		The project that belongs to the class.                                                             
                      
    the babies' cries		The cries that belong to the babies.

    the birds' nests		The nests that belong to the birds.

    the children's voices	The voices of the children.

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